YELWA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Hafsat Garba wept as she recounted how heavily
armed Christian militiamen, stripped to the waist and wearing charms on
their arms, invaded her home town.
The 36-year-old mother of two was one of hundreds of Muslim women abducted
by the warriors during a two-day assault on the central Nigerian town of
Yelwa in which hundreds were killed.
"At the town center, they separated women and children from the men,"
Hafsat said, trembling uncontrollably as she sat at a military checkpoint
near the town. "They killed our men and took the women and children away."
More at
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=ourWorldNews&storyID=5147267
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